A fifth-year student on leave from Kyoto University cannot accept being dumped by his girlfriend, Mizuo. Set in Kyoto at Christmas, this coming-of-age novel follows a heartbroken young man racing onward with nothing but his enormous imagination.

A heartbroken young man races through Christmas-time Kyoto, driven by his enormous imagination.

In a Japan that has lost everything, the largest Far East America in Tokyo lies a half-day's bicycle ride from the former site of Meiji Shrine. Centered on a single elephant regarded as the only hope, this fantasy novel journeys through an unhappy future Japan.

In a Japan that has lost everything, the only hope is a single elephant.